Jose Guerena, a former (2002-2006) U.S. Marine, survived two combat tours in Iraq to return to his native Tucson, Az., to start a family.

On May 5, Jose was shot 60 times and killed in his home in front of his wife and their 4-year-old son by five armed men who broke into his home and only later identified themselves as a sheriffs’ SWAT unit serving a warrant for drugs. No drugs were found. The Guerenas had no criminal record.

Around 9 a.m., Vanessa Guerena had seen an armed man pointing his rifle at her through the window of her son’s bedroom. She yelled “Don’t shoot, I have a baby.”

The Guerenas live in a neighborhood known for home invasion. Vanessa yelled to awaken her husband who had just gone to sleep after working a 12-hour night shift at the Asarco copper mine. Startled awake, Jose grabbed his AR-15, told his wife to hide with their son in the closet and ran to confront the men crashing through his front door.

The SWAT team fired 71 shots in seven seconds. Deputies claimed that Guerena had fired first, then retracted that when they admitted that Guerena’s rifle was on safety and had not been fired.

Democrats can make your investments turn to mush speaking "Defaultophobia"

Mr. Geithner’s hyperventilation ignores the experiences of millions of Americans who have refused Visa’s and MasterCard’s offers to boost their credit ceilings. Ignoring one’s bills can trigger default; leaving one’s borrowing threshold intact does not. Keeping credit lines unchanged is a first step toward spurning further debt. Responsible cardholders will eat at home more often and, perhaps, shop at Joseph A. Bank rather than Hugo Boss. The resulting savings then go straight to debt reduction.

“It’s not accurate at all to equate a failure to raise the debt limit with a default on our Treasury obligations,” Sen. Patrick J. Toomey, Pennsylvania Republican, tells me. “That’s totally false. Tax revenues will be nearly 10 times the amount of money needed to avoid defaulting on our debt.”

“It looks like the dollar is on its way out, gold and silver coins and bars hold their value. Time to buy gold,” says a man who studies markets, trends and has invested heavily in gold stocks.This person wishes to remain anonymous, but he sent me this tip for my benefit and so I could send you a WATCHWOMAN’S WARNING. ▬ Donna Calvin

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah legislators want to see the dollar regain its former glory, back to the days when one could literally bank on it being “as good as gold.”
To make that point, they’ve turned it around, and made gold as good as cash. Utah became the first state in the country this month to legalize gold and silver coins as currency. The law also will exempt the sale of the coins from state capital gains taxes.
Craig Franco hopes to cash in on it with his Utah Gold and Silver Depository, and he thinks others will soon follow.

The idea is simple: Store your gold and silver coins in a vault, and Franco issues a debit-like card to make purchases backed by your holdings.

Watchwoman on the Wall

by Donna Calvin

Shouting from the rooftops, proclaiming warning to a sleeping nation, Donna offers her unique perspective on current events

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Donna Calvin

In sixth grade my teacher told us that we were going to be the first generation to see the year 2000 and all things would be different. He continued that God wasn't important, wasn't real, and our parents just used God to impose restrictions on us because they were inadequate to parent effectively. I knew then I was going to be involved in a war and that I would have to be in Jesus Christ's Army. Even then, I knew the United States of America would cease to exist without the vast majority of its citizens voluntarily submitting to the Perfect and Good Laws of the Holy Bible. I am a woman who loves the Lord Jesus Christ. I am tired of seeing our LORD denigrated from the school house to the White House. I search the Internet for items that ought to serve as a warning to Americans and Christians all through America, but the nation seems to be sleeping. Wake up America! You are losing your freedoms, your children and your country. Wake up and help stop it!